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THE ASTORIAN • THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2021
Tsunami: ‘This is meant to be a starting place’
IN BRIEF
Man treated for burns after Seaside fi re
SEASIDE — One man was taken to a burn unit
and two people were displaced after an early morning
structure fi re on N. Wahanna Road on Friday morning.
The fi re was reported at 5:25 a.m., offi cials said.
The patient with burns was taken to Columbia
Memorial Hospital in Astoria before being fl own
to the Legacy Emanuel Medical Center burn unit in
Portland.
The Red Cross assisted other tenants displaced by
the fi re.
The fi re is under investigation.
Coast Guard rescues man
after boat capsizes
A 41-year-old man was rescued from the waters
off the Willapa National Wildlife Refuge in Pacifi c
County, Washington, after his boat capsized on Friday
morning.
The U.S. Coast Guard Sector Columbia River air-
lifted the man to safety. He had worn a life jacket but
appeared hypothermic after the incident.
A teenage boy, who was also in the boat when it
overturned, swam to shore, the Coast Guard said.
— The Astorian
Ports receive $3.2 million for dredging
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has awarded
$3.2 million to the Port of Peninsula and the Port of
Willapa Harbor for dredging.
The money comes from the federal harbor mainte-
nance trust fund.
“This is extraordinary news for the Nahcotta Boat
Basin and our communities,” Jay Personius, the exec-
utive director of the Port of Peninsula, said in a state-
ment. “Here we have a chance to work together again
with the Port of Willapa Harbor and the Corps of Engi-
neers dredging approximately 150,000 cubic yards of
sediment from our basin.
“These actions protect our commercial shellfi sh
growing jobs, commercial crabbers and salmon fi sh-
ers, as well as increase access for local recreational
boaters and fi shing enthusiasts.”
— Chinook Observer
Inslee signs executive order
for electric fl eet
OLYMPIA, Wash. — Washington Gov. Jay Inslee
has signed an executive order that seeks to move state
government to an all-electric fl eet of vehicles by 2035.
The order, signed Nov. 3, requires the 24 executive
branch agencies under Inslee’s control — including
the Washington State Patrol and Department of Trans-
portation — to buy battery-powered electric vehicles
to replace passenger vehicles and light-duty trucks
with internal combustion engines once they need to be
replaced. The Herald of Everett reported that the order
requires at least 40% of the fl eet to be electric by 2025,
75% by 2030 and 100% by 2035.
For medium and heavy-duty vehicles and trucks,
Inslee wants to see 30% of those be electric by 2030 and
100% by 2040. When a battery-powered model is not
available, agencies must acquire the lowest-emission,
cost-eff ective option, such as plug-in hybrid electric.
Roughly 5,000 state vehicles are covered, the vast
majority of which now run on gasoline or diesel. Each
of the agencies is required to prepare a plan with costs
and a timetable for complying with the targets.
Inslee announced the order in Glasgow, Scotland,
where he is participating in the Conference of Parties,
an international summit focused on fi nding ways to
reduce greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to the
worsening impacts of climate change.
“Together with the rest of the leaders here and those
everywhere else today who are committed to this fi ght,
we will lead the charge on de-carbonizing the trans-
portation sector,” Inslee said in a statement.
An Inslee spokeswoman said they will work with
the Legislature to secure funding for additional elec-
tric vehicle charging stations to support an electric
fl eet. Also, federal funding will be sought.
— Associated Press
MEMORIAL
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for that area. So, we’re going to have
to build vertical evacuation structures.
There’s just no way around it.”
The new assessment by Dixon’s
agency identifi ed a need for 55 to 85
evacuation structures on the Pacifi c
coast between Ilwaco and Neah Bay,
Washington. The state study proposed
possible locations in coastal towns and
cities to construct towers, artifi cial hills
or multi purpose safe havens, but Dixon
said it will be up to local offi cials to
apply for federal grants to build them.
Each tsunami refuge structure probably
carries a multimillion-dollar price tag.
The outer coast tsunami vertical
evacuation study was the culmination
of more than 10 years of tsunami mod-
eling, inundation and evacuation map-
ping, community meetings and engi-
neering design exercises. University of
Washington experts and students col-
laborated on an initiative named Proj-
ect Safe Haven that laid the foundation
for the new analysis.
“At the state level, we wanted to
know just how many of these would
need to be built so we could get a han-
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dle on how big the need is,” Dixon said.
“This is meant to be a starting place.”
A point person for earthquake and
tsunami preparedness at the Oregon
Offi ce of Emergency Management said
she is hopeful that her state and coastal
communities can soon take a fresh look
at vertical evacuation needs.
“The pandemic has set us back on
our feet,” geohazards program coordi-
nator Althea Rizzo said . “Oregon defi -
nitely needs to be considering this.”
Oregon and Washington state each
christened their fi rst showpiece tsu-
nami evacuation structures before the
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Both Virginia and Caro-
lyn Shepherd have spoken
against Sture’s release at his
parole hearings.
“I wish I didn’t have to do
this anymore, you know?”
said Virginia Shepherd, who
is now 88 and lives in Lewis
and Clark. She and Jim had
two children — a son who
now lives in Brownsmead and
a daughter in La Center, Wash-
ington . “We’ve all survived. It
sure made me a stronger per-
son. But I don’t like doing it.”
She added, however: “I’ll
go through it until I die. I
don’t want him to kill some-
one else.”
When Jasmin oversaw
the Clatsop County Law
Enforcement Offi cer of the
Year Award, an honor cre-
ated in Shepherd’s mem-
ory, he would invite Virginia
Shepherd. The whole thing,
he said “was done for her, to
honor her, and for what hap-
pened to her husband,” he
said. “We wanted everybody
to keep him in mind.”
In 2011, Jasmin wrote
a letter opposing Sture’s
release. “I don’t want to see
him out,” he said.
‘Never’
District Attorney Ron
Brown also opposed Sture’s
release a decade ago and
plans to do so again.
“I’m going to basically say
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this guy’s too big of a risk to
let go,” he said. “And I don’t
know whether that’s going to
work or not.”
Brown said he doesn’t yet
know what Sture plans to say
this time, but the district attor-
ney remembers what stood
out to him last time, such as
how little Sture had done to
improve himself while in the
Oregon State Penitentiary
and prepare for post-prison
life — often critical ingredi-
ents in whether parole is ulti-
mately granted.
“It’s pretty amazing,”
Brown said. “Usually if
you’ve got time to sit in a cell
… and think about what you
did and how you got there,
you wanna get out as quickly
as you can. And so there’s
jobs you can take in there,
there’s educational things you
can sign up for to try to learn
a trade.”
The last time Sture was up
for parole, “he hadn’t taken
one single class, nor had he
worked a single day since he
had been in the institution,”
Brown recalled. “And that
had been a long time.”
Every time the Shepherds
have to deal with Sture, they
relive the murder . And they
feel the loss anew whenever
they learn an offi cer has been
killed.
“When something like
that happens in your life, it
never goes away,” Virginia
Shepherd said. “Never.”
ZIP code: ‘We need to fi gure out how this is going to work’
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But doing so, City Coun-
cilor Dan Jesse pointed out,
may lead to unintended
consequences.
Jesse said while a new
ZIP code might benefi t res-
idents in the city’s core,
many residents, especially
those living east of the Nea-
coxie River and east of U.S.
Highway 101, have grown to
depend on the Seaside Post
Offi ce.
“I don’t get anything from
the Gearhart Post Offi ce,”
Jesse said. “I have no reason
to ever go there because it
doesn’t serve me at all.”
City Councilor Reita
Fackerell said she under-
stands the need for a new
ZIP code and supports the
resolution. “But if we did
get a new ZIP code in Gear-
hart,” she said, “we’re not
sure who will deliver to the
people who do have actual
mailboxes.”
Since the 1960s, Gearhart
mail has been routed through
the Seaside Post Offi ce to
the Gearhart P ost O ffi ce.
Because they share the same
ZIP code, mail addressed to
Fourth Street in Gearhart
may end up at Fourth Ave-
nue in Seaside, and vice
versa, Gearhart P ost O ffi ce
manager Karynn Kozij said.
Misdirected mail requires
costly research, redirection
and delays. Many online
sites utilize the Postal Ser-
vice’s national ZIP code
database and do not allow
overriding the default city
name based on the ZIP code.
A unique ZIP code would
make it easier for the post
offi ce to distribute and
deliver packages and easier
for the customer to locate the
package, Kozij said.
Eric Anderson, a Third
Street resident, said he often
uses his home address for
sending and receiving items.
“Due to our shared ZIP
code with Seaside, my deliv-
eries are often compro-
mised,” he said in a letter to
the City C ouncil. “I have had
items shown as delivered but
never received. My counter-
parts at Seaside’s Third Ave-
nue are often the fi rst and/or
only stop for such items.”
FedEx driver Chris
Thode, a former postal ser-
vice employee in Seaside,
said in correspondence there
are times when numbers
can get mixed up because
of the confusion between
addresses.
“Most of the drivers that
I know can diff erentiate
and know where to deliver,
but there are times that the
address is not right or the
driver is new on the job,”
Thode said. “It’s just com-
mon sense.”
In October, with approval
from the City C ouncil, city
staff prepared a resolution
on a formal request for the
new ZIP code.
But confusion over num-
bered and lettered streets
doesn’t impact the major-
ity of the city’s postal cus-
tomers, Jesse said. Because
one group believes a new
ZIP code is needed doesn’t
mean the majority of resi-
dents agree.
“We have a great divide
between the core commu-
nity and what I believe at
this point is the largest vot-
ing majority of Gearhart res-
idents, which are not asso-
ciated with the core groups
whatsoever,” Jesse said.
“I’m up and down the high-
way multiple times a day.
That’s the Gearhart I know.
“There are people here
that actually refer to people
like myself as ‘those peo-
ple,’ like we’re the plague,
the ‘scourge’ of Gearhart,
because we’re not part of
the downtown core — we’re
on the other side. I’m sorry,
I get my dander rattled by
things like this because the
representation is not here for
what I do believe is the larg-
est majority of people in the
city of Gearhart.”
Jesse asked for a delay
on a council vote until
more information was col-
lected. “We need to fi g-
ure out how this is going to
work,” he said. “If we don’t
know the answer to that, we
should not be voting on this
tonight.”
Cockrum suggested the
city conduct more due dili-
gence and make contact with
the Postal Service , “maybe
up the chain a little bit.”
“Maybe we can make a
call and talk to somebody
and fi nd out what some pos-
sible solutions might be
before we move forward,”
she said.
There is one other pos-
sible concern, Kozij added.
“This case is actually
beyond Gearhart needing a
unique ZIP code,” she said.
“It’s that some Seaside cus-
tomers would want Gearhart
to not share theirs.”
Boutique: ‘You fi nd out what they want. The whole key is listening’
Galiardo planned to open
Tommyg in March 2020 but
was deterred by the pandemic.
He could sense it would linger
past a few weeks and decided
to hold off for a year.
“I fi gured once the vac-
cines come through the
masking mandates lessen,
that would be a good time,”
he said.
The shop opened on
Broadway on Memorial Day
weekend. Galiardo feels
appreciative of everyone
who has showed support,
including the building own-
ers, Deana and Kirk Fausett;
his business partner, James
Faurentino, who owns Pizza
a’ f etta next door; and the
community.
“I’m so appreciative, I
can’t even express it, of how
wonderful local residents
have been to me,” he said.
While his approach to
clothing and accessory
style is “very classic, very
easy,” his business philos-
ophy is all about investing
time and energy to give each
customer a personalized
experience.
“You fi nd out what they
want,” he said. “The whole
key is listening.”
The store carries an
assortment of sweaters, out-
erwear, jeans, leggings and
lingerie. In the spring, he’ll
add designer shoes made
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coronavirus pandemic emerged to
dominate emergency managers’ time.
Shoreside in Newport, Oregon State
University’s new, heavily-reinforced
Marine Studies Building was built with
a wide outdoor stairway leading to its
fl at roof, where there is room for about
900 people to ride out a tsunami.
In Westport, Washington, the Ocosta
School District built a new gymnasium
with a reinforced roof capable of holding
1,000 people. The roof elevation of 53 feet
above sea level is calculated to be comfort-
ably above a worst-case tsunami wave.
The Shoalwater Bay Tribe looks
to be the next to debut a vertical tsu-
nami refuge. The tribe on Willapa Bay
secured Federal Emergency Manage-
ment Agency funding to build a stand-
alone evacuation tower on the vulner-
able Tokeland Peninsula. The tribe’s
emergency management director said
the foundation for the steel tower with
a double-decked refuge platform on
top will be fi nished next week. The
tribe hopes the whole thing will be
done by spring 2022. Completion of
the $2.5 million tower was delayed by
about a year by supply chain disrup-
tions wrought by the pandemic.
Shepherd: ‘I wish I didn’t have to do this anymore’
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THURSDAY
Clatsop Care Health District Board, 3 p.m., strategic
planning meeting, (electronic meeting).
Seaside Civic and Convention Center Commission,
5 p.m., 415 First Ave.
Established July 1, 1873
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in Brazil and Italy. If he
expands in the future, he
said, the goal would be to
add After Five attire.
Galiardo keeps an eye on
trends and takes stock of what
“the big boys are doing,” and
then fi nds copies or makes
modifi cations suited to his
clientele, who encompass a
diverse age range.
He also is meticulous
about the atmosphere in
the establishment, which is
designed more like a show-
room than a shop to refl ect
the upscale off erings. With
a color palette of sea blue,
oyster white and Dior gray,
there’s a sense of spacious-
ness and calm, with care-
fully selected furniture and
display pieces from Bliss
— a French country and
coast-inspired
mercantile
also located downtown.
“I always get compli-
mented on the interior,”
Galiardo said. “I don’t care
how many times I hear it;
it’s very nice that somebody
appreciates it.”
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